Is there a self-referent mood-congruent recall bias in anxiety?
Generally anxious patients and normal controls were compared on their recall of self- vs other-referenced adjectives that were either descriptive or non-descriptive of anxious mood. The results failed to confirm a self-referent mood-congruent recall bias in anxious patients. Anxious subjects tended to recall relatively more mood-congruent words overall, but this could be explained by response bias.
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Department of Psychology, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, England.
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D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010556:Personality Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D012660:Semantics; D012718:Set, Psychology